Release Train Engineer (Snowhill, Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Why this job matters

BT’s modernisation and simplification programme is an exciting, innovative and ambitious programme of change that affects BT’s Digital Consumer function as well as our customers and partners. We are focused in transforming our services in a collaborative human-centred way, shifting to agile working across the whole software lifecycle, strengthening our partnerships and improving our leadership and culture. Our team structures and ways of working are changing. We are growing our people’s skills for the future and we are evolving our platforms, architecture, data & insight, digital and tooling.

The purpose of this role is to facilitate alignment and planning readiness by working closely with other tribe RTEs to map dependencies and deliver end to end functionality. You'll co-ordinate with testing leads to plan testing, be responsible for managing delivery to live with release managers and drive improvement with new ideas processes to accelerate Digital Consumer's transformation to an agile organisation.

What you’ll be doing

Manage the backlogs and facilitates the sequencing of work across the ART (Agile Release Train) to efficiently manage the overall development and the fixed resource utilisation. Contribute towards programme level coordination, such as creating timelines, milestones, and cadence of increments and releases and contributes to the development of reports and analyses that document programme activity. Facilitate quarterly alignment and planning readiness by driving cross-team synthesis of the vision, roadmap, and backlogs, and encourage collaboration across teams to help ensure strategy and execution alignment. Facilitate the ART communication and coordination with stakeholders and customers during feature definition and delivery across multiple application transformation initiatives. Execute coaching and provision of expertise to teams on how to break down work backlogs effectively, i.e. slicing for value, feature and capability estimation and the roll-up to Epics. Promote a culture of continuous improvement by identifying and applying process enhancements, driving innovation, and encouraging team collaboration to enhance performance and achieve outstanding results.

Experience you'll have

Be Agile: Solid understanding of lean Agile delivery practices with awareness of SAFe framework) with ability to lead collaborative agile ways of working and effectively manage changing priorities Problem Solving: Must be able lead and take ownership of proactively solving technical delivery problems across squads that are multiplatform wide, impacting multiple services or cross Tribes/Business areas Transformation: Be able to manage long term changes and adapting the Tribe/Release Train in line with business needs of frequent customer centric, high quality and low cost product delivery JIRA: A great understanding of JIRA, reporting, dashboards etc and be able to drive improvement with best practices

Preferred:

Technical Delivery: Agile Practitioner inc large scale agile delivery leadership, led Program Increment (big room) planning events aka QPP Demonstrable experience of utilising Lean Six-Sigma methods to drive continuous improvements Experience of applying agile Roadmap prioritisation processes at program and portfolio level

The skills you’ll need

Continuous ImprovementIssue ResolutionRequirements GatheringValue Stream MappingSprint Events/CeremoniesLean Portfolio Management (LPM)Stakeholder ManagementNegotiationData AnalysisAgile MethodologiesRequirements ManagementBacklog PrioritisationProject/Programme ManagementDecision MakingGrowth MindsetRisk ManagementInclusive Leadership

Benefits

An annual on-target bonus of 10% (personal and company multipliers) BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10% Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership There’s also great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’

Our leadership standards

Looking in: Leading inclusively and Safely I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity. Owning outcomes I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out: Delivering for the customer I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business. Commercially savvy I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future: Growth mindset I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation. Building for the future I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.

Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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